Safeguarding The World’s Food Supply, One Innovation at a Time
At a time when food waste is a global focus, more is happening behind-the-scenes to preserve fresh food than ever before. Many aren’t aware of the complex systems that safely move food from farm to fork, but Emerson has a unique understanding. After all, we drive many of the technologies that make it possible.
Emerson is a leader in leveraging technology and expertise to safeguard food through every part of its life cycle, from the field to the consumer’s first bite. Food preservation is a significant issue: Experts estimate that global food waste costs more than $990 billion each year.
We offer a number of solutions for common customer challenges. Using monitoring devices that capture data and feed analytics, we’re able to confirm that fresh foods are kept at safe temperatures throughout the “cold chain,” from harvest to processing to distribution to the point of sale.
Through refrigerated containers that continually monitor food temperature, Emerson is able to monitor food safety, whether food is traveling by land or by sea. At sea, Emerson’s Transportation team equips, connects or monitors hundreds of thousands of refrigerated containers on 18 of the Top 20 shipping lines.
New technologies from Emerson, such as LocusTraxx, make it easier than before to use small, real-time temperature loggers on individual shipping containers to monitor logistics efficiency, food safety, and cargo integrity as our food moves across its full journey.
Quality insights, fueled by real-time data, are crucial. These relevant analytics can help optimize even seemingly-routine operations for customers who make daily business decisions based on food quality. A grocery store manager who knows that the latest peach shipment spent time above its ideal temperature can devote more shelf space to fruit more likely to ripen quickly—decreasing potential food waste and maximizing profit.
Once perishable foods reach grocery stores, our ProAct Services food quality reporting safeguards food by tracking temperature and humidity, and automating the labor-intensive food safety reporting process.
As the world’s food supply remains an international focus, Emerson will continue to innovate, providing never-been-done-before solutions to help customers preserve the highest levels of food integrity while focusing on sustainable, profitable operations.
